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Post: "The inhabitants of the British West Indies, of course, are eager for annexation to the United States. Most of them are negroes, and they have heard of our lynching bees, Jim Crow discriminations and grandfather clauses with increasing envy. The people of Barbados are tired of having magazine writers describe their perfect government, as recently in Scribner's, and want a little Thompsonism or E. Mont Reilyism. As for the Philippines, every one knows that the Tribune for a quarter century has led the Republican press in such demands as 'Haul down the flag...
Secretary of War Weeks: "A pension was granted to a survivor of the ill-fated command of General Custer. He is Shuh-Shee-Absh, a Crow Indian, who was an Indian Scout for the General at the time of the massacre of June...
Since cock-crow and daylight have not been sufficient, the ghost must be dispersed, by the old device of hoax exposers; he must be confronted with self-comparisons, odious though they may be. First, in the Harvard scale, come the names of George Santayana, Percy McKaye, John Jay Chapman, Ed win Arlington Robinson, Robert Frost and Cale Young Rice. They, to be sure belong to the era before the ghost was raised; but they still manage to keep pace with the advancing generations. After the century mark stand such poets as Hermann Hagedorn. John Gould Fletcher, Arthur Davison Ficks...
...what was perhaps the best race of the afternoon, Coach Bert Haines' first yearling 150-pound won a close decision from the Tech light-weight 1925 combination. The Crimson crow led the procession over the entire course, and finally succeeded in retaining three quarters of a length's advantage on their rivals. The Freshman 150-pound B shell finished third...
...Morgan's Crow--Bow C. H. Hollistor Jr. '24; 2, J. R. Hoover '24, 8, J. A. Nickerson '22; 4 H. S. Morgan '28; 5, D. S. Holder '24; 6. J. D. Jameson '24; 7. H. H. fuller '28; stoke, S. N. Brown '24; cox., B. H. Bernham...